ATTIC is a collection of tools, games, and activities
to inspire innovation, teamwork and engagement in health care
settings.

Banned

Sometimes turning your thinking on its head can be the best thing to do when trying to generate new ideas and solutions to old problems. The banned exercise gets you to create future scenarios based on imagining a world in which a product, service or experience no longer exists. It explores how people might adapt in this situation to generate new ideas and creative solutions.

Create a storyboard by drawing your scenario. How would you adapt in your new world in which there were no treatment options for pressure ulcers? For example, you may draw frequent turning of patients or any other wild and creative solutions. Try to generate as many adaptations as possible.

Analyze the scenario through discussion. Explore your adaptations and how they might be put into practice.

Summarize insights. Discuss your adaptations and people’s reactions to them. Are any possible to test or implement?

Debrief

What did it feel like to imagine a world where a product, service or experience no longer existed?